A service system and method using flying service equipment are disclosed. In the service system, flying service equipment such as a drone can be remotely piloted by an operator to perform activities such as installing, configuring, and testing distributed devices such as fire detection devices in a fire alarm system. The service system performs these activities upon distributed devices of a building management system. For this purpose, the service system includes a drone, and a service payload carried by the drone for performing the activities on the distributed devices.